Charlie Cox got severe acne as a teenager and felt too self-conscious to hang out with his boarding school friends on weekends. He joined theatre rehearsals to hide instead, but ended up meeting the coolest girls in his year and becoming the social connector for his friends.
I got into acting because I had really bad skin. So when I went through puberty, I suddenly had— we in the UK, we say zits. Yeah, I had spots everywhere. In the US we say this. You say zits as well? Okay. Oh no, in the UK we say spots. Spots. That's— you guys don't say that, right? You say this. So we had spots. I had terrible skin and I was really embarrassed and shy about it. And on the weekends at boarding school, what do you do? But you go and you go to the girls' school and you meet girls. And I didn't want to go. I didn't. I was too ashamed to, you know, show up. And, and so I— but I couldn't tell my friends I didn't want to go and meet the girls with them. So I got involved in theater because we would rehearse on the weekends. Um, and, uh, that's how that started. That's really how that— to escape. Yeah. And then of course the irony is I met all the coolest girls in the theater class. And so then all my friends would be like, can you introduce me to Daisy?
